Martin Lipp (poet)

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Bust (remainder of a monument?) Of Martin Lipp in the church of Nõo

Martin Lipp (* April 2 . Jul / 14 April 1854 greg. In Vooru, Livonia ; today Landsgemeinde Tarvastu , Estonia , †  8. March 1923 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian minister and poet .

Life

Martin Lipp attended the village school of Vooru ( German Woroküll ), the parish school of Tarvastu ( Tarwast ), the district school of Valga ( Walk ) and until 1874 the grammar school in Tartu ( Dorpat ). In 1878 Lipp completed his studies in theology at the University of Tartu . There he was active in the “Association of Estonian Students” ( Estonian Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts ).

Lipp was pastor of the Lutheran parish of Kaarma ( Karmel ) on the island of Saaremaa ( Ösel ) (1882-1884) and head of the teachers' college there. From 1884 Lipp was pastor in Nõo ( Nüggen ) in southern Estonia .

Martin Lipp is remembered primarily as the creator of late romantic poetry. He published the volumes of poetry Kodu Kannid (two volumes, 1897 and 1899), Lihtsad lilled (1902) and Päikese kullas (1909). The volume Hilised õied has survived as an unfinished manuscript . Lipp's texts often have an Estonian patriotic content. His poem Eesti Lipp (“ The flag of Estonia ”, set to music by Enn Võrk ) became an unofficial and conspiratorial national anthem during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. Lipp also published under the pseudonym Martin Lillenupp .

In addition, Lipp translated secular and spiritual literature from German and Finnish and was one of the most important Estonian genealogists of his time. Today he is buried in the Nõo cemetery.

In 1880 Lipp married Lydia Henriette Lau (* 1862). The following year the daughter Helmi Magdalene was born.

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 302

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 251